Category: Installations
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(1940 – 2022) Laila Shawa was born on 4 April 1940 in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine, eight years prior to the 1948 Nakba and the founding of the State of Israel. Shawa was well educated; she attended boarding school at the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute in Cairo from 1957 to 1958, then went to the…
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Esraa Elfeky (born. 1989) is an Egyptian multimedia artist working with video, sculpture, drawing, sound, and installation. Her work unearths the complex relationships that exist between the natural world, the body, time, and the urban environment. For the past five years, Elfeky has navigated themes such as the apocalypse, decay, and resurrection as an ongoing…
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Marianne Fahmy (b. 1992) is an Egyptian artist living and working in Alexandria, Egypt, whose works span film and installation. She earned her BA in Painting from Alexandria’s Fine Arts University, before joining the MASS Alexandria independent art program in 2016. Fahmy’s work has previously been shown at the Sharjah Bienniale (2023), the 7th Yokohama…
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Weaam El Masry is an Egyptian, Cairo-Dubai based, multi-award winning visual artist. She holds a PH.D. in media art from the Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University. She is currently working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts & Design, MSA University. She is a curator and co-founder of Easel and Camera contemporary art…
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Yasmine El Hazek (b. 1989) based in Egypt, she attended many art programs around the world and received her masters in visual arts in Florence, Italy. Starting her career from a young age, El Hazek has developed a keen interest in people, and devoted her continuous artistic experimentations to portraying them. Stimulated by all the…
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Golrokh Nafisi (b. 1981, Isfahan, Iran) is a visual artist based between Amsterdam and Tehran. Graduate of Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam 2010-2014, from 2000-2005, she studied design at Art University of Tehran. Her main artistic practice is to imagine alternative ways of both counting time and locating ourselves; shaping a new imagination for calendars as…
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Neda Razavipour’s artistic practice explores the question of balance, a condition that continually shifts between the extremes of order and chaos. This search affects the individual as well as entire societies, spaces, and structures. For this reason, she usually conceives her work site-specifically, developing in a precise choreography over several days, weeks, or months. Often…
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“The paintings and installations of the Iranian artist Samira Hodaei are painstakingly assembled from scores of individual elements. Whether pixel-like dots that are applied directly on the canvas or discarded everyday objects that are assembled into huge garment-like structures, her work seems to simultaneously cover and uncover the object of its investigation. The narratives she…
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Born in 1984 in Iran, Sara Rahanjam is a distinguished sculptor who has carved her path through the world of contemporary Iranian art. In 2007, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from the Fine Art department at Tehran University, establishing a solid foundation for her artistic journey. Sara’s artistic endeavors have been marked by…
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Hanaa Malallah studied Fine Art in Baghdad with an emphasis on graphics and painting. In 2005 her thesis concerning the logic order in Mesopotamian drawing gained her a PhD in the Philosophy of Painting. She has taught and lectured widely at several faculties of the University of Fine Arts in Baghdad. At the end of…
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“Each artist has their own style and their own rituals, with the showroom being an integral part of their life. My experience with Orient Gallery over these many years is one of a second home, and home means love, trust and comfort”. Hilda Hiary Born in Amman in 1969, Hilda Hiary graduated from the University…
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Ala Younis is an artist, trained as an architect in Amman. Research forms a big part of her practice, as do curating, collaboration, film and book projects. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including solo shows at Darat al Funun (2009) and Delfina Foundation (2010 and 2018), MMAG Foundation in Amman (2017), Centro…
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Aseel AlYaqoub is an artist, researcher and writer based in Kuwait. Her artistic practice revolves around the intricate interplay of geographic identities, collective memories, and socio-political hierarchies. She draws from an ever-expanding repertoire of references to meticulously investigate the diverse perspectives on identity, culture and nation that arise from forgotten narratives, colonial documents and alternative…
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Tamara Al Samerraei (b. 1977, Kuwait) is a painter who lives and works in Beirut. She received a BA in Fine Arts from the Lebanese American University in Beirut in 2002 and completed the inaugural year of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan (2011-2012), Beirut. Her solo exhibitions include Promise You Made, Marfa’ Projects,…
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Manar Ali Hassan is a multidisciplinary artist and curator who blurs artistic boundaries by merging diverse mediums such as painting, sculpture, digital art, and immersive installations. With a Master of Visual Arts from ALBA, she explores social and philosophical related themes and their intersection with art and technology. As a curator, she bridges contemporary and…